Milwaukee District Attorney E. Michael McCann told The Post the price for Al Gore votes for up to two dozen homeless men was a combined 40 packages of cigarettes, some cigars and lighters.

Milstein was caught on tape with other Gore supporters handing out cigarettes to homeless men whom they had just taken to Milwaukee City Hall to fill out absentee ballots for Gore.

It is illegal in Milwaukee to give anything valued at more than $1 in exchange for votes. A bribery conviction could bring up to 4½ years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

“We believe there was a violation,” McCann said without mentioning Milstein by name, but implying she is the primary target of the investigation.

McCann said it appears between 15 and 25 homeless men were given tobacco products in exchange for filling out absentee ballots for Gore the Saturday before the election.

Patrick Vandenburgh, executive director of one of three shelters said to have been visited by Milstein and six other Gore volunteers, said the homeless men approached initially did not want to register.

They went only after the Gore volunteers held up a pack of cigarettes to entice them, Vandenburgh said.

He added that when a shelter official told the Gore volunteers to leave because campaigning was not permitted on the premises, one said, “Al Gore is for the homeless and the downtrodden,” in an apparent effort to remain.

Milstein, who this year has contributed $402,000 to the Democrats, has retained a prominent Milwaukee lawyer.